But then this morning when I turned on my computer, I was even more thrilled - my post was picked up and featured by Inman News, calling my post Bloggers on blogging. Matt Carter did a great job on focusing the importance of this post - to recognize the one who has built a community of blogging. That was important to me. SellsiusRealEstate.com has always given limelight out to the little bloggers and I wanted to do some payback.

October 20, 2006

I had the pleasure of "interviewing" the gentlemen and founders of SellsiusRealEstate. There are alot of blogs that I read daily but there is one that continiously steps outside of the box. They are responsible for the Top Ten Female Bloggers (which by the way was an honor), the 101 Blogging Challenge and inventing the word "UnZillowable". I suspect that there will be more to come because they have alot of imagination between the two of them.

1.) You both have done so much with your blog - you have as far as I am concerned, you have become the kings of blogging - What Inspired you to start blogging?

We are flattered. We have been fortunate that people like something about us or our writing. We don't know what it is, though we'd love to know.

We started blogging in January after the Inman NYC Connect where we were Silver Sponsors and received a very warm welcome in anticipation of our upcoming idea for a community website. The theme of the show was upcoming innovations in real estate and blogging was one of them. We had been reading blogs for sometime---Property Grunt, Inman, Matrix, Curbed and Rain City Guide. In fact, all these blogs had given us valuable press. (Glenn Roberts at Inman News did a piece on Sellsius back in November of last year.) All this inspired us to start a blog of our own. We had no expectations. It was an outlet to express our love of real estate while we were waiting for our website to be built. Over time we learned the ropes, we met some influential bloggers, caught a couple of breaks, and luckily some of our posts got good airplay. What has been the most rewarding though is meeting new bloggers. We remember how hard it was, and still is, to get noticed, to get visitors, comments & links. The property grunt, an A-list blogger, wrote about us often and gave us so much positive press, even though we were complete unknowns. It was his generosity of spirit which encouraged us to reach out to new bloggers and get them some needed attention. It is something we will continue when we start our own community.

2.) You have many posts - out of all of them, which one(s) would you say are your favorites?

5.) I notice that you have "big news" soon - is there anything that you can share with us now?

We and Blogging Systems are going to announce a new fun tool for blogs which may get you more page views and make your blog a little stickier. It's a wordpress plug-in.

We also plan to announce a new community blog event -- something other blogs can do in the future, something along the lines of the Carnival of Real Estate.

Oh yeah, by the way, we might decide to launch our site soon :)

6.) In the next 3 years, blogging will go through some growing pains - what do you think will be the biggest change that the blogs will face?

Commercialization and oversaturation.

7.) SellsiusRealEstate.com is becoming a household name as a real estate related blog. I am curious, do you guys sell real estate?

Household name? You're the first to tell us that. Thanks.

We used to sell real estate in New York City a few moons ago.

8.) I know that SellsiusRealEstate.com is for a listing tool - but that has not taken off as of yet... howcome?

We ask ourselves the same question everyday. Actually, Sellsius will be a grassroots real estate community people can trust to get information, advice, guidance, in additon to seeing listings. Of course people can always use a new venue for advertising listings online but we do not want to be looked upon as strictly a listing site. We hope to introduce new search methods to improve the process. Everyone is searching for different things and one search method does not fit all. We are two real estate guys with ideas on how to promote individual real estate agents, their businesses and their listings. We are not programmers and have been at the mercy of our web developer. We're still waiting for them to finalize the site. We are using our own money to build sellsius° because we want to answer only to our members' needs rather than investors' which have approached us.

9.) Who does most of the blogging, Rudolph or Joseph?

Most of the time we write our own posts but we often get the other's opinion and input. In the beginning, every post was written side by side. Can you tell who is writing the posts? The reason we dont take individual credit on the posts is because we want to promote the sellsius° brand.